No Spill Blood - Heavy Electricity

In Heavy Electricity, Dublin synth-metal bruisers No Spill Blood have crafted one of the most sonically-arresting records of 2015. Claustrophobic and intense, the trio’s full-length debut proper (following 2012’s Street Meat EP) turns promise and potential into a powerhouse wall of delicious dark noise, all without the assist of a traditional guitar. To be fair, they don’t need the six-string. In its place; war drums, guttural howls, beautifully distorted bass tones and, crucially, a vintage synthesizer sound that lends a very specific sense of time and place.